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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






2. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






3. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






4. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






5. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






6. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






7. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






8. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






9. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






10. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






11. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






12. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






13. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






14. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






15. Information system consisting of tools and techniques to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.






16. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






17. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






18. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






19. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






20. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






21. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






22. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






23. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






24. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






25. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






26. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






27. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






28. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






29. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






30. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






31. The process of completing each project procurement






32. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






33. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






34. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






35. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






36. Subdivision of a phase






37. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






38. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






39. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






40. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






41. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






42. Graphic display of schedule related information.






43. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






44. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






45. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






46. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






47. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






48. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






49. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






50. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors